Football: Non-Verbal Communication Between Coach And Players
Non-verbal communication is all about communicating your ideas, messages and information via facial expressions, gesture or in simple words to communicate your thoughts without using the words. Players demonstrate their happiness, love, hatred, disappointment, anger by various facial expressions on the ground.
Football is no exception; the entire match is administered from start to end by the referees’ whistle, hand movements and indications. Players equally issue diverse body twists and movements spontaneously, impulsively or consciously to portray different moods and emotions.
Non-Verbal Communication between Coach and Players:
As a coach, one can say a lot without uttering a word: A frown, a look of disbelief, a disgusted shake of your …show more content…
The open palms can be used a lot during a game.They can be used for telling players to leave by simulating a pushing action with one hand, and also used for telling a player to come over to you. By keeping your palms open it’s seen as non confrontational and shows that you’re the one that’s in control. Referee talks in sign language to communicate with players or with his team members sitting at the podium. His non verbal communication in the entire game plays a key role from the beginning of the game till end spanning from telling about the fouls, giving red cards, penalty, throw or time-outs to communicating key pointers to his tem sitting far …show more content…
The quarterback tries to read or guess what the defense is going to do; if they are going to blitz or if they are doing certain defense. Depending on what the quarterback thinks, he will use common non verbal signals and gestures to communicate to the receivers, running backs or tight ends. To indicate which receiver should be sent in motion from one side of the field to the other, the quarterback will either tap his left or right foot or tap the left or right side of the centers leg to let the receiver know which way to go. The receiver then will move in motion towards the other side of the field to set up and wait for the quarterback to hike the ball. “To get the center to hike the ball, in shotgun formation, the quarterback will use a “silent snap” by tapping his foot on the ground” (Goldberg 2010). Nonverbal communication is also seen between the players when they shoot a goal or when they commit a mistake. At each and every second of the play, we can see the nonverbal communication happening between the
Football is no exception; the entire match is administered from start to end by the referees’ whistle, hand movements and indications. Players equally issue diverse body twists and movements spontaneously, impulsively or consciously to portray different moods and emotions.
Non-Verbal Communication between Coach and Players:
As a coach, one can say a lot without uttering a word: A frown, a look of disbelief, a disgusted shake of your …show more content…
The open palms can be used a lot during a game.They can be used for telling players to leave by simulating a pushing action with one hand, and also used for telling a player to come over to you. By keeping your palms open it’s seen as non confrontational and shows that you’re the one that’s in control. Referee talks in sign language to communicate with players or with his team members sitting at the podium. His non verbal communication in the entire game plays a key role from the beginning of the game till end spanning from telling about the fouls, giving red cards, penalty, throw or time-outs to communicating key pointers to his tem sitting far …show more content…
The quarterback tries to read or guess what the defense is going to do; if they are going to blitz or if they are doing certain defense. Depending on what the quarterback thinks, he will use common non verbal signals and gestures to communicate to the receivers, running backs or tight ends. To indicate which receiver should be sent in motion from one side of the field to the other, the quarterback will either tap his left or right foot or tap the left or right side of the centers leg to let the receiver know which way to go. The receiver then will move in motion towards the other side of the field to set up and wait for the quarterback to hike the ball. “To get the center to hike the ball, in shotgun formation, the quarterback will use a “silent snap” by tapping his foot on the ground” (Goldberg 2010). Nonverbal communication is also seen between the players when they shoot a goal or when they commit a mistake. At each and every second of the play, we can see the nonverbal communication happening between the